Veterans Day honors military service. The Fourth of July acknowledges the country’s independence. But Presidents Day is ...

"He came up with a startled look on his face and said, 'Joe, I really think we've got something special here.'" In 2024, a ...

There has never been a statue of George Floyd at the National Mall in Washington, contrary to a false claim online that a ...

After going into the locker room, down six at the break Abraham Lincoln coach Jason Isaacson challenged his team to up the physicality. They did. The Lynx made a 10-3 run to start the second half ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let’s also acknowledge some ugly truths that reflect the times in which our our ...

Inside it, National Park Ranger Ryan Ventura says is the actual stone where George Washington stood to take the oath of office to become president of the United States back on April 30 ...

The Potomac River in Washington is frozen. On Friday afternoon, divers on a D.C. police boat maneuvered through slabs of ice atop the water and recovered the second of two dead bodies—a pickup ...

MIDDLETOWN -- George A. Tice, the unofficial “photographer laureate” of New Jersey whose black-and-white photographs often captured the visceral, almost haunting urban landscapes of his home ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...